Guitars, musicians, contracts and agents – the post pandemic entertainment business is booming like everything else. It’s all fast and unfolding and I want to stay nimble to navigate the tempest. I let venues and talent know to prepare for the onslaught months ago and mostly everyone was ready. Since I eat and drink music
A Day in the Life of a Gigging Musician Read Post »
It’s old news that social media has changed the fundamental experience of self promotion.A kitschy cover of an 80’s song accompanied by just-the-right hashtag can propel themost fledgling artists on to the grand stage between our thumbs. What’s more, it ishighly probable that your morning’s viral entertainment is being beamed into yourbathroom from the other
Local, Social, Like by Billy Dean Read Post »
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June 2021 Special Edition Issue Read Post »
There’s no doubt, if you grew up as a boy in the 1980s at one point you had a crush on Tawny. Whether it was her amazing beauty and quick wit in the movie Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks or her sultry and provocative dance moves on a car hood in the band Whitesnake’s video.
Oh no! Say it isn’t so? Tawny Kitaen is dead at the age of 59 Read Post »
Remember the humpty dance? Most of us do, as it was one of the bigger hits of 1989. It was also the song that helped launch the career of Gregory Edward Jacobs. Jacobs was also known for his collaborations with rap legend Tupac Shakur on not one but two of the Tupac’s albums, producing 2Pacalypse Now in
Lead singer for band Digital Underground Shock G dead at 57 Read Post »
Paul McCartney says in his latest interview that the Beatles smoked weed for the first time with Bob Dylan in ’60s We now know who’s to blame when it comes to how the first real boy band was transformed from clean cut English lads to long haired hippie rockers. Rumor has it that music more
Paul McCartney smoked weed with Bob Dylan in the ’60s Read Post »
A racist parody targeted the popular Korean boy band BTS which triggered international backlash this past weekend. The groups’ fans were outraged, including many others that with the rise in Asian Hate crimes & Anti-Asian speech around the world. BTS has one of the largest & most passionate fanbases in the world, and they proved
BTS fan base strikes back with love against an Anti-Asian Racist Parody Read Post »
